The challenge of downsizing criminal justice
Thank you for inviting me to speak tonight at this important event.
Before I get on to the substance of what I will be saying today, a quick observation on the speech earlier today...
It's true because I saw it on the telly
Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, gets his facts on immigation and crime from the ITV drama documentary 'Fraud Squad'.
We know this because he uses an episode broadcast in April 2012...
Mandatory sentences about politics, not safety
Our director Richard Garside was quoted by The Guardian over the weekend, on mandatory sentences for knife carrying.
Richard said that the...
Trends in knife homicide in England and Wales
There is no getting away from the awfulness of what unfolded yesterday at Corpus Christi Catholic College. The fatal stabbing of...
Is violence in decline?
The ongoing apparent fall in violence continues to perplex commentators and criminologists alike.
Just today the latest quarterly update of the ...
Taking forward the Justice Matters initiative
During March we held two really interesting and challenging Justice Matters events.
On Monday, 24th March we held the 'Justice Matters partners' event, focusing on the initiative as a whole...
The great criminal justice contracts monopoly
'Government spends £187 billion on goods and services with third parties each year, around half of which is estimated to be on contracted out services'. So claims a report by the...
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 3
The House Magazine reviews probation plans
Our Director Richard Garside has written for a House Magazine policy review of the government's plans to privatise probation and introduce 'payment by results' (PbR).
Richard writes:
'Whether PbR will work in the terms the Government expects is impossible to
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Resist government’s obsession with men in uniform
After its bruising report on the government's plans to privatise probation in England and Wales, the House of Commons Justice...
The coming probation privatisation disaster
If the government's plans to privatise probation under the 'Transforming Rehabilitation' programme end up being as messy, expensive, counter-productive and damaging as many critics fear, today's...